Even in this modern age, there is still so much we don’t understand about our own species. So many mysteries of humanity that remain unsolved. But soon there might be one less mystery, and it’s all thanks to Dr. Colleen Waldrop and her team of researchers from the American Anthropological Association. After years of painstaking analysis, they believe that they are now closer than ever to finally figuring out how we are supposed to read Tumblr comments.
Anthropologists have long struggled to decode the curious markings that appear under Tumblr posts, cryptic combinations of vertical lines and horizontal text all arranged in strange triangular tableaux. But Dr. Waldrop’s team made a crucial breakthrough this month when they realized that maybe you can tell who wrote a comment by following the line that goes from the comment to the username above: